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charli kleeman

@charlikleem

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@skowheganart is a very special place and I am beyond grateful to have spent my summer there. I have so much crazy love for every single one of you who spent it with me. I don’t really know how to explain or describe my time there and honestly I find it a little overwhelming to reflect 🦅 but I’m just putting this here hoping more and more artists outside America can learn about this strange residency/art school/summer camp that still somehow exists despite all odds and apply! As I learnt about it from an instagram post just like this one :) 1 million hugs to everyone I miss u guys every day 💔 by @charlikleem

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Featured in Gender Stories at Walker Art Gallery, @charlikleem’s Gun rack (2025) explores themes of trans-hypermasculinity, craft and the cultural presentation of violence. Through sculpture, Kleeman examines how masculinity is constructed, performed and displayed, inviting viewers to question familiar ideas about gender, identity and power. In this article, Charli invites a 13-year-old to interview them about the sculpture, discussing the inspirations behind Gun rack, their creative process and the conversations they hope the work will spark.

Read the article at the link in bio 🔗

ℹ️Gender Stories is open now until 31 August 2025
Entry is FREE

ℹ️Gender Stories is supported by MAGNET and Art Fund, with funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

🌟Now more than ever, your support truly makes a difference. If you’re able, please consider donating to help us create unforgettable experiences for all. A wooden art installation features a complex arrangement of glass tubes and red liquid flowing through flexible tubes. The setup is mounted on a wooden frame with metal brackets, creating a visually intricate network. The bottom of the image includes the text "In focus Charli Kleeman" over a gray gradient. by @charlikleem

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My work ‘Gun Rack’ is on loan to @walkerartgallery in Liverpool till August for their show ‘Gender Stories’, alongside David Hockney, Paula Rego, Catherine Opie, Grayson Perry and many other incredible artists I can’t really believe I’m showing work alongside.

Thanks so much to Charlotte Keenan and Ann Chaplin for this opportunity, and for putting together a great show that includes early career queer artists as well as perspectives on gender throughout the centuries.

Thanks also to everyone else at the Walker that made the whole experience really special <3 taken in Walker Art Gallery by @charlikleem

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‘Don’t jump into the Clyde, George Parsonage has retired’ 2026, mixed media
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Installation for the @royal_scottish_academy ‘New Contemporaries’ exhibition this March-April
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Photos by @callumlovellharrison
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The work loosely takes the form of the ‘Needle Shower’- an early psychiatric hydrotherapy treatment used from the late 1800s to early 1900s involving high-pressure cold water jets used to shock or punish institutionalised patients in asylums. The intended outcome was to stimulate difficult-to-manage patients’ nervous systems into activity or sedation.

The title references George Parsonage, a Glaswegian artist who rescued over 1,500 people from the River
Clyde in his lifetime. by @charlikleem

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Pics of me for the website that doesn’t exist yet by @19.34fm by @charlikleem

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pics from my July show with @ghost_art_school at the @indybiennial in The Wirral
Huge thanks to the incredible people who helped with install and invigilation<3 by @charlikleem

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Thanks @16_collective for letting me inside your window. Come see my work in the window till the 8th of October at 173 Trongate. by @charlikleem

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Installation detail for ‘What if You Regret It’- Kestrel #1 and Kestrel #2 by @charlikleem

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Thank you to @ghost_art_school, @ka_re_ma_ and the @indybiennial for giving me the incredible chance to show ‘What If You Regret It’ in a solo exhibition in port sunlight.
On till end of July in The Stables

text by Rory Macbeth:

What If You Regret It? is a DIY hormone-lab/hunting-shack that reflects the desire within violence that inevitably accompanies starting testosterone. The work acknowledges how the criminalisation of hormone self-regulation creates an absurd and degrading lack of control that trans people have over their bodies. This means that transmasculine people resort to accessing hormones outside of institutions.

Their work centres around the concept of Trans-Hypermasculinity- where transmasculine people radically embody hypermasculine traits, simultaneously reinforcing and dismantling them. It takes as its starting point Scottish deer stalking and its presentation as an ethical form of violence.

The sculptures incorporate references to hunting equipment, 18th-century laboratories, and the endurance of prey animals. The works enacts a complex interplay between these elements, linked by pink liquid pulsating though tubes, and the inherent violent potential in each beautifully hand-crafted element.

‘What If You Regret It’ was made during a period of strategic removal of trans rights in the UK. The work reflects on bodily autonomy, DIY hormone production, bio-hacking, and the need to perform dominance to survive it.

Under the current political climate medical care for trans people will likely become increasingly restricted within the NHS. Without the accidental coalition between transmasculines and steroid junkies, operating outside these institutions would be extremely difficult.
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Charli Kleeman is a Glasgow-based multimedia sculpture and installation artist working in metal, ceramics, and wood. Craft is central to their practice. Imperfection is accepted; materials are chosen for their resistance. taken in Port Sunlight by @charlikleem

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‘What If You Regret It- Fig.5: ‘Dart Board with Darts’
Screen print on pig skin, darts, steel, wood, 2025 by @charlikleem

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‘What If You Regret It- Fig.4: ‘Head of a Stag’
Aluminium, Wood, stoneware, handmade bone ash glaze, 2025

‘What if You Regret it’ is a water installation that expands from my dissertation- ‘The Desire to Shoot a Stag: Violence and Trans-Hypermasculinity’.
The sculptures incorporate references to hunting equipment, 18th-century laboratories, and the endurance of prey animals. ‘What If You Regret it’ was made during a period of strategic removal of trans rights in the UK. The work reflects on my feelings around bodily autonomy, DIY hormone production, bio-hacking, and the need to perform dominance to survive it. by @charlikleem

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‘What If You Regret It- Fig.3: Gun Rack
Steel, Wood, Tubing, Glassware, Rubber stoppers, copper, 2025

‘What if You Regret it’ is a water installation that expands from my dissertation- ‘The Desire to Shoot a Stag: Violence and Trans-Hypermasculinity’.
The sculptures incorporate references to hunting equipment, 18th-century laboratories, and the endurance of prey animals. ‘What If You Regret it’ was made during a period of strategic removal of trans rights in the UK. The work reflects on my feelings around bodily autonomy, DIY hormone production, bio-hacking, and the need to perform dominance to survive it. by @charlikleem

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